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newbie! problems with partitions/modem etc

Hi All

i am newbie to linux. just managed to install linux to my m/c for dual boot, with windows 98 (hda1). I hardly know anything about linux or unix, so would need step by step guidence.

1st problem>
i had a 40 gb hard disk. before instaling linux, i made a partition of 5GB and installed windows98 SE on it. Then while installing linux, i create around 28 gb hard disk (hda2) for the purpose of keeping my important files in windows.
then i created rest of the partitions as required for linux installation and installed linux.
then when i booted windows, i formatted the 28gb partition- fat32. put some files on it. and it worked beautifully. then i booted linux and rebooted with windows again, that partition became unusable. i repeated the exercise 3-4 times with the same results.